Overview: If there are between 1 and 9 deaths in the strata, this information is surpressed and coded as missing. In this document we investigate trends in supression/missingness to understand how it differs according to state, age, race, and sex.

Notes on Figure 1 (below):

Figure 1: Proportion missing by State (panel) and Age group (x-axis), ordered by increasing size of black population in 2013

Notes on Figure 2 (below):

Figure 2: Proportion zero by State (panel) and Age group (x-axis), ordered by increasing size of black population in 2013

Other plots (less interesting/informative)

How is missingness related to age, race, and sex?

Let’s look at the proportion with 0’s

Missing or zero (which is equivalent to < 10)